We organized articles we found interesting by category (many correspond to existing sections of our academy (and are in bold). Please let us know what you find interesting (just provide a comment). Perhaps you have an article to add?
Anthropology
- Study finds early Neolithic high mountain settlers were already carrying out complex livestock and farming activities.
- New Images Reveal The Surprising Truth About What Neptune Really Looks Like. Spoiler alert – it is not that different from Uranus.
- Unfortunate Insect Trapped In Amber Found Stuck To 75-Million-Year-Old Dino Jaw. What an incredible series of events had to happen for this to be found. Amazing.
- New evidence that insect wings may have evolved from gills.
- Fossils Finally Reveal Fiery Colors of Prehistoric Animals. “An ancient frog, bird and dinosaur wore elusive yellow and orange shades, a new lab technique reveals.”
- The ocean’s first large swimming apex predators had exceptionally rapid growth, fossil study finds.
- Earth’s Early Magma Oceans Detected In 3.7 Billion Year-Old Greenland Rocks. Rocks from southern Greenland reveal a time when the earth was mostly molten.
- Rare museum specimen reveals new insights into how trilobites curled themselves into a ball.Similar to the approach used by armadillos and pill bugs.
- Fossil evidence of photosynthesis gets a billion years older.
- “Juvenile T. rex” might be a separate species after all.
Things that make us go hmmm…
- Octopus DNA seems to confirm scientists’ theory about a long-standing geological mystery. It appears West Antarctic Ice Sheet last collapsed 125,000 years ago (according to this study).
- A Geologist Found The Oldest Water On Earth, And Then She Tasted It. In a Canadian mine and yes, it contained traces of life.